With this category we want to recognize those administrations which have used electronic signature in internal administrative proceeds among their different departments and offices.

Its bet for the implantation of the digital certification has brought to distribute 12.000 certificates to judicial and penitentiary administrations through the constitution of an Entity of Registry depending on the Certification Authority of CATCert .
The incorporation of an aerial with chip without contacts for access control to the CATCert standard card has been replayed in several projects in the Administration.

With this category we want to distinguish those projects and initiatives which have used electronic signature to reduce proceedings and to avoid management and documentation duplicity between different public administrations.

Catalan Agency of Certification CATCert) wants to award those initiatives that use the electronic signature to facilitate the relationships between a public administration and citizens sparing displacements and time by using the electronic administration.

With this project, Lleida's Council has been able to promote digital certification and electronic signature in citizen's relationships. The civic folder, integrated with CATCert platforms, contains a high number of formalities for citizenship with digital certificate that avoid daily citizens displacement to the Town Council, speeding up formalities and reports, and sparing time and resources.

With this cathegory we want to recognize those projects wiche have signified an important step to improve relationships with public administration and companies with electronic signature use in business area and professionals.

This project implies the conversion of the classical prescription to the electronic prescription, proving safe access for Medical College and Pharmacist to Information System of Electronic Prescription (SIRE ) and electronic signature of prescription. In this way, the registry and real updating of all facts that have impact on the prescription is improved, from the moment that the doctor creates it until the pharmacy dispensation.

These new categories intend to avoid comparing Public Administrations of different magnitudes, giving the opportunity of having a deserved recognition for its efforts in the implantation and the use of the digital certification to public administrations with less resource.

Consell Comarcal de la Garrotxa (Garrotxa's Region Council) and Castellar del Vallès' Council.

Refearing to Consell Comarcal de la Garrotxa (Garrotxa's Region Council), we remark: divulgation of the electronic signature, the constitution as a Registry Entity for region public workers, the creation as an idCAT Registry Entity for citizens, the support to local entities for its adhesion to the services of digital certification idCAT , the support to region local entities in formalities management to become an idCAT Registry Entity , and finally the technical support loaned to the region local entities for the electronic signature of treties.
Definitively, the transmission of the enthusiasm for the digital certification in all region towns is priced in all its areas .

Related to Castellar del Vallès' Council, we remark it as pioneer entity in its relationship with its citizenship via Internet and the electronic signature, implanting formalities with the citizenship through e-FORM (electronic formalities). So, since year 2004 idCAT Registry Entity they implant services at the town and the platform e-FORM using digital certificates.

Terrassa's council stands out for the use of sigital certification in citizen relationship and also in Council's internal management.
So, since 2005, these following initiatives have been executed:
 idCAT Registry Entity.
 Electronic administration ordinance
 Public Workers Registry Entity.
 Citizen's Folder in town's Web site.
It is emphasized the trust that, from the very first moment, the entity has given to digital certification, solving all entity internal problems, technical and juridical, till getting a telematic formalities platform completely operative.

With this category it is pretended to recognise those private scope projects which promote digital certification to society and expand uses and services of electronic signature among citizenship.

The Bank of Sabadell is a pioneer in using digital certification, based in two projects; the access to the electronic banking with certificates of third parties, including the certificate of the Catalan Agency of Certification idCAT (mechanism that allows to fight against the phishing attacks, very common nowadays) and the signature of electronic bills via the platform of electronic invoicing of Sabadell Bank, endowing them like this with legal validity in front of the Tributary Agency.

For the promotion of the use of the digital certification in the Council and in the town that, in spite of the few economical resources and few staff it has as a medium town council it is, from the beginnings of CATCert it has promoted the use of electronic signature in all areas that re-engineering of projects has applied. It stands out the well known project Matrix which relates data which you can find in local administration.